BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Who hasn’t had an experience with a bully in their lives? No matter where you come from, you’ve probably been teased, taunted, sometimes even terrorized by someone who’s taken a dislike to you. Maybe you have…
How Lush plans to use regeneration to save the planet
BY: RHIANN MOORE Lush recently launched the Spring Prize 2017 in their endless effort to save the environment from humankind’s relentless and destructive tendencies. Much like the Lush Prize before it, the award seeks to empower individuals, organizations and communities…
Graphene is the strongest material on Earth and it’s in your kitchen
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Graphene is one tough cookie. Not only are scientists trying to find a way to turn this much-touted wonder substance into a new way to build orbital structure, but they are searching for more and more…
According to these scientists, our oldest ancestor literally ate shit
BY: PHILLIPE DE JOCAS It’s hard to believe that evolution – the great endless cycle of livin’, breedin’, mutatin’, and dyin’ – has gone on unabated for more than four billion years. In that time, fish have crawled out onto…
This is the Titanic of turbines and it will blow you away
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Wind power isn’t quite the realm of dinky pinwheels and spindly turbines anymore. At its core, wind turbines run off a deceptively simple plan that produces clean and environmentally friendly energy from the breeze. Wind power…
The moral stresses of animal experimentation and why they’re a good thing
BY: DUSTIN BATTY Most scientists who perform animal experimentation do not write about the emotional impact that such actions have on them. This silence arises from a number of factors: worry that other scientists do not feel similarly, a belief…
Step aside craft breweries, moon beer is coming
BY: BROOKLYN PINHEIRO Have you ever wondered how yeast would act in outer space? No me neither, but lucky for us some science students have or else we wouldn’t have the possibility of brewing beer on the moon. A group…
A new breath test could save lives by speeding up cancer diagnosis
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT Nobody wants to hear that they’ve got bad breath, but a recent medical study suggests that it could save your life. The researchers found that a breath test they’d created could detect stomach and esophagus cancer with…
Robots could steal your job in the next 25 years, and here’s why
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS If you’ve even tuned into the news at least once over the past twenty months, you’ve probably heard a certain “someone” talking about jobs, and how to best bring them back to American shores. Regardless of…
Scientists have found the best thing that you can do on the weekends to sleep better
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP With the world available at your fingertips in the form of a smartphone, or the ability to binge watch any show at all hours of the night, or with the never-ending nagging list of stresses running through…
GMOs are not as terrible as everyone thinks they are
GMOs have a noted terrible reputation, but the fact is, as long as people are kept aware and the food is consistently tested for safety they are actually perfectly healthy and great for the environment. In 2017 there’s really no…
Practicing yoga can literally change your DNA for better, long term health
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY Who truly has the time to relax anymore? We as human beings are taught from a very early age “idle hands are the devil’s playthings,” meaning that if you are not constantly busying yourself with something or…
The non-browning apple sets out to change consumers’ minds about GMOs
BY: RHIANN MOORE The Arctic apple has been trotted out as a game changer in the misunderstood and massively hated GMO market. Canadian company, Okanagan Specialty Fruits, has spent years developing a non-browning apple with biotech firm Intrexon. The idea…
This Scientific Discovery Will Change The Way You See the World
I lied. It won’t. But it will make you think about how easily you can be taken in by a title. 2016 brought a lot of media reporting practices to the table for evaluation. Most alarming was the sudden and jarring…
5 documentaries to watch to remind yourself that climate change still exists in Trump’s America
BY BROOKLYN PINHEIRO Now that Trump’s in charge, fighting for climate change is going to be even more difficult considering he doesn’t believe in it. Remember this? Since his inauguration, Trump has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to remove…
Researchers just found a treatment that will eliminate cavities and repair decaying teeth
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Who here actually likes getting a cavity? Few things are worse than the first twinges of pain that will alert you to the fact that something’s out of whack. Then there’s the trip to the dentist…
A spectacular collision of stars is expected to light up the sky in 2022
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Doesn’t the sun seem so immobile and, well, fixated in the morning sky? We’re all told from an early age that, although ancient people once argued that the sun revolved around the Earth, we now know…
The Great American Eclipse – Find your spot to view the only total solar eclipse in decades
BY: TIM O’NEAL This close to the winter solstice it can sometimes be difficult to remember what the sun even looks like, especially in western Oregon. It’s even more difficult to imagine getting excited about an event that will completely…
This new artificial leaf converts sunlight into fuel
It’s incredibly daunting to think that future generations won’t be growing up in the same environment as the one in which we have spent centuries taking for granted. Climate change, global warming, animal extinctions and other environmental threats are becoming…
Voyeuristic volcanologists watched an underwater volcano blow its load
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Volcanic eruptions are more common that you might think. Every few decades, land-based volcanoes blow their stacks and send fiery ash, ejecta, and debris skyrocketing into the air. Pompeii, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens are all…